Sunday, February 19, 2012

From Chris Berry #4

CIRCUS VARGAS (1978)
Throughout its history Circus Vargas has used window cards, quarter sheets and even smaller posters for most of its outdoor advertising. This quarter-sheet (14"x22") was used in 1978 and features the classic image of the "Charging Tiger" drawn by famous animal artist Charles Livingston Bull for the Ringling Bros Circus about 1915.

Posted by Buckles at 2/19/2012 12:27:00 PM

2 comments:

Ross said...

It's not every day you find paper from a tented show in downtown Columbus, OH. At High and Nationwide (or "Nation Wide", as the poster says) today you'll find the Nationwide Arena, home of the NHL's Columbus Bluejackets and also the venue of choice for RBBB the last several years. For 2012, however, they're moving TGSOE back up to the Schottenstein Center on OSU's campus.

19 February, 2012 15:39
Unknown said...

This poster dates from 1989, and is for an appearence of Vargas in Batelle Hall of the Ohio Center, which is an adjunct to the Hyatt Hotel. He was experimenting with indoor dates that year. The CHS convention was across the street and attended the show en masse. Buckles and Barbara and Bobby Johnson were there. Cliff was the convention banquet speaker and died about a month later.
Cirque du Soleil played on the parking lot of Nationwide Arena twice in the 2000s, making it the last circus to play downtown Columbus under a tent. In its last years under canvas Ringling-Barnum played on the parking lot of Redbird and then Jets Stadium a little southwest of downtown.

20 February, 2012 09:59

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